An infinite journey starting from paradise

However, before the shadow could envelop Taira Ie, her body transformed into a stream of water, escaping from the gap in the shadow that never closed, leaving only a mess of clothes on the ground. After escaping the shadow, she rushed towards Lin Shangren like a surging wave.

"Hey, elementalization? Is this starting to increase in strength? Alder Chilling."

Raising his hand, he shot out a chilling Alder Seal, and Lin Shangren also wrapped his body with a layer of black shadow. At the same time, he connected the black shadow on his mouth and nose to the forest a few miles away to breathe the air there. Since the other party could turn her body into a stream of water, Lin Shangren had to be careful whether she could control the water vapor in the air, or even directly control the water in his body such as blood and cell fluid.

Compared to using giant water balls to hit people and using elemental transformation to avoid physical damage, this advanced use of water elements is obviously more terrifying. If the opponent can really achieve this level, Lin Shangren will likely suffer a serious blow if he is not prepared.

"Can't you freeze?"

The stream of water that Taira Ie transformed into wasn't frozen by the Alpha Seal, but it was still frozen for a moment by the seal's shockwave. Then, the stream split into five streams, each like a five-toned water snake, attacking Lin Shangren, who had been wrapped in a black body, from different directions.

Lin Shangren offered no resistance, allowing the current to entwine him, coalescing into a giant ball of water that engulfed him. He could sense the living water constantly trying to break through the shadows covering his body and invade it. Apparently, this creature's attack wasn't as advanced as Lin Shangren had imagined; it was still limited to drowning and suffocating him.

"If you want to come in, then I'll let you in."

The materialized black shadow on his body instantly transformed into a shadowy swamp. In just a breath, Lin Shangren absorbed all the water surrounding his body into an independent black shadow space. Then, he peeled off the materialized black shadow on his body and the water trapped within it, throwing them to the ground.

On the ground, the black shadow wrapped in water kept jumping and squirming, like a ball of black slime.

She continued to struggle, but her movements became increasingly smaller. Finally, the slime-like shadow transformed itself into a curvy human figure. However, her naked body was now wrapped in a tight, black layer, like a plastic suit, as if playing some perverted suffocation game.

Lin Shangren spread out his perception, and after confirming that there was no more threat nearby, he walked up to Pingliang Ie and checked her condition.

[To be honest, while not as outrageously large as the elves, her proportions are quite good. I suggest you build an alchemical body based on this standard.]

"Okay... Actually, I've already prepared a very tough body for you. I'm just waiting to start transforming and enchanting it."

While mentally responding to Fururu, Hayashi Shangren activated his Soul Vision to examine Ie Taira's condition. Sure enough, something was amiss with her soul. Enveloped within her soul lay a strange energy, merging with Ie Taira's, even taking control of her body. If the two were separated quickly, it wouldn't take long for Ie Taira's consciousness to be completely overwhelmed and replaced.

"What the hell is this thing? Never mind, let's pull it out of Taira Ie's body first."

Lin Shangren was just about to activate the power of Maxwell's demon to separate the strange energy from Pingliang Ie's soul, but he didn't expect that the purple mixed with dark red power actually took the initiative and attacked Lin Shangren's consciousness.

"Will you try this with me? Luofu Realm, open."

Even without Ashrose to protect his soul for the time being, Lin Shangren's current control over the simulated dream and mind shadow is enough to withstand this level of impact. The opponent's attack failed and he was forcibly pulled into the simulated dream by Lin Shangren.

"Let me see what you are made of."

In the material world, Lin Shangren hugged the body of Taira Ie, which was wrapped in darkness, and then the two of them sank into the thick darkness together.

……

A simulated dream world, fragments of Taira Ie's memories.

It was late at night two days ago, and it was also the moment when Lin Shangren saved Beiyejian Town from disaster in a simulated dream.

Taira Ie was staying in a guest room at the Haido Municipal Hotel.

Insomniac, she was lying on a yoga mat, doing the cycling pose. Her round buttocks rose and fell with the rhythm of her breathing, and her elastic thigh and thigh muscles radiated a sexy vitality.

There was no doubt that this healthy body with wheat-colored skin contained enough vitality to make most men excited. But at this moment, the owner of this body was filled with melancholy.

After meeting Shinna Kaori and indirectly saving Shinna Rentaro, Taira Ie finally had the courage to face her past crimes. She mustered up the courage to turn herself in, but she still felt conflicted.

"What should I do? I'm not afraid of jail, but... Dad, Chiyo-san, and Kako-san... I... Jincheng should all die to atone for their sins..."

Taira Ie kept exercising, trying to calm himself down.

At this moment, a very tempting voice suddenly sounded in her mind.

"Is there anything you deeply regret or a mistake you desperately want to make up for?"

"Perhaps if you had made a different choice back then, your life would have been very different?"

"Do you want to change your fate? Do you want to live your life over again?"

"If you wish, go to Rokkaku Village and retrieve the things left by your ancestors. Then, find the golden screen. They will help you fulfill your long-cherished wish, Princess of Ryugu Castle."

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Author's words: The heroine of "Sword Hero Legend" Mine Sayaka is really too young, so her role in the original work was split among several other people, Taira Ie is one of them, and she is used to lure out the Dragon Palace and the Dragon God Pearl.

Chapter 396: Exorcism Massage and Nine Dragon Balls

"Who is it? Who's talking?!"

Pingliang Ie suddenly sat up and looked around the empty guest room. She felt that she was hallucinating.

Just as Taira Ie was about to lie down again, a dark red pebble suddenly appeared between her eyebrows. Then, that extremely seductive voice sounded again.

"My little princess, don't you want to change your miserable fate?

Don't you want to make up for those regrets and correct the crimes you have committed?

Don't you want to...save the girl you killed?"

Taira Ie stared around in astonishment. This was definitely not an illusion. "Who are you?! What are you talking about?"

"Don't you want to go back in time and stop your foolish self? You can do it. You have the talent," the voice continued. "Manipulate time, rewrite history, and create a perfect life for yourself. You just need to find the secret left by your ancestors - Urashima Taro's Jade Box."

The next moment, strange scenes suddenly began to appear in Taira Ie's vision: she saw strong winds and thunderstorms tearing the turbulent sea, sinking an eight-headed giant snake that covered the sky and the sun into the sea; she saw herself guarding a colorful gem in a palace deep in the sea; she saw two moons hanging in the sky, one bright moon and one blood moon, and a giant dragon emerged from the deep sea to fight a group of indescribable and terrifying monsters; she saw the giant dragon and the monster die together, a purple light entered her body, and six rays of light flew out from the monster's remains.

"These are...these..."

Countless scenes flashed before Taira Ie's eyes like a floating world painting. With each scene, her consciousness faded, and the scene before her became blurry. In the end, she saw only the magnificent palace in the deep sea crumbling, and a giant sword inlaid with the shimmering orb split into three, each of which turned into a stream of light and flew away.

"The Tyrannosaurus Sword split into three again: the Wind God Sword, the Thunder God Sword, and the Dragon God Pearl... along with the Dragon God and Kaguya-sama's six treasures... the Dragon Head Jade, the Fire Rat Fur, the Penglai Jade Branch, the Yanzizi An Bei, the Buddha's Stone Bowl, and the Jade Box...

The whereabouts of all treasures are recorded on the golden screen... Part of Kaguya's power... must be sealed away..."

Taira Ie's consciousness gradually became blurred, and then her eyes suddenly lit up. The scene around her was no longer the guest room of the Haido Municipal Hotel but a warehouse. Beside her, several young men and women were playing Magic: The Gathering boredly.

"Hey, Duzi, what did you just say? Want to test your father?" A young man suddenly looked up and asked.

"It's the scene from that day! What am I... feeling now..." Taira Ie was stunned. Just as she realized what was happening, her body spoke first in a slightly mechanical tone, "No... Nothing... Just pretend I didn't say anything. Um... I'm a little tired. I'm going home first..."

She hadn't shared that foolish thought with her friends, hadn't enacted that reckless plan. No one would have died, no one would have been heartbroken. Jin Cheng Du wouldn't have become Taira Ie, and she could have continued the relatively fulfilling life she could have led... And so, Taira Ie finally lost herself in this dream, and in reality, a strange magic circle emerged beneath her. Then, with a flash of light, the magic circle vanished.

The scene recalled by Taira Ie's consciousness ended there, and the rest was only a void. In order to understand her experiences from the night before yesterday to the present, Lin Shangren had to search the memories of the strange soul attached to Taira Ie's soul again.

"We have to extract it from Taira Ie's soul first."

Unlike the energy that Slaanesh left in Chihara Fuyumi's soul, this strange energy attached to Taira Ie's soul is completely integrated with her soul and even her body. If Lin Shangren wants to separate it out, he will definitely have to spend some effort.

So, just as he had done when he had removed the remaining Slaanesh energy from Kayara Fuyumi's soul, Hayashi Shangren reached out to Taira Ie's soul, preparing to give her a full exorcism massage from head to toe. The difference was that, because the energy had already been completely integrated into Taira Ie's body, Hayashi Shangren had to remove it in the real world this time.

At this time, the naked Taira Ie was still wrapped in that layer of black shadow, lying flat on the ground like a lamb to be slaughtered.

Lin Shangren used the levitation ring to suspend her body in the air, and then activated the [Soul Color Vision] and the power of Maxwell's Demon, and stretched out his hands towards her left arm - perhaps because it was hit by the Alder Seal just now, the strange energy and the combination of Pingliang Ie's left arm were unstable.

Lin Shangren gently held Pingliang Ie's left arm with both hands, and his ten fingers gently kneaded her arm, from the wrist all the way to her shoulder. In normal vision, he seemed to be massaging Pingliang Ie, but in Lin Shangren's own sight, he was using the kneading action to infiltrate his spiritual energy into the gap between Pingliang Ie's soul and that strange power, gradually prying open the gap between them in an attempt to peel it off.

"It needs to be loosened up a bit."

Lin Shangren's big hands massaged vigorously, from the left arm to the shoulder, then the right arm and back. His knuckles slid from the center of Pingliang Ie's smooth back to above her buttocks.

He then opened his palms and cupped Ie Taira's soft thighs, kneading the soft, supple skin beneath her delicate flesh while pressing the acupuncture points and nerves on her legs, from thigh to knee and calf. He then gently lifted her ankle, gently rotated her foot, and then lightly scratched her sole with his nails. The whole process, if combined with essential oils, would have been a skilled and perfect spa. And indeed, Ie Taira's body was becoming hot from Lin Shangren's massage.

"Woo..."

The unconscious Taira Ie groaned softly.

Lin Shangren, however, didn't let Pingliang's reaction stop him. His palms covered her beautiful buttocks, and through the thin shadow, he pinched and kneaded the delicate flesh. A trace of sweetness and warmth gradually grew within Pingliang Ie, accumulating more and more. Especially when Lin Shangren's hand approached the valley between her buttocks, Pingliang Ie's lower body trembled and tensed, and a ripple of sweet warmth spread deep within her body.

“Haaaa…haaaa…”

Pingliang Ie's panting grew louder, and Lin Shangren suddenly stopped his work on her buttocks and manipulated the levitation ring to lift her from a prone position to a standing position, then lifted her hands and held them high behind her head. Lin Shangren then stretched his hands behind her and massaged her sides, moving them back and forth between her ribs and armpits. In between the intense movements, his fingers would sometimes reach far forward, occasionally brushing against the outer edges of her breasts. The unfamiliar, lightning-like touch would make Pingliang Ie's nerves seem to stand up, and her body would tremble with impulse.

"Almost there. It's completely loosened up. We can pull her out now."

After rubbing for a while longer, Lin Shangren suddenly covered Ie Taira's large breasts with both hands, pinching her tender nipples with his index and middle fingers, and then yanked back. Then, Ie Taira's delicate body, already slick with her juices and trembling with tenderness, was pulled out of the shadows. Only a body with the same outline as Ie Taira remained within the thin, yet impenetrable, shadow.

After the power was stripped from Taira Ie's body, she no longer had the ability to resist. She gradually solidified in the shadows, and eventually turned into the beautiful woman with a snake-like body that Lin Shangren saw when he used the power of Laplace to recall the history of this place.

Lin Shangren was just about to pull it into the simulated dream, but the next moment the energy body, which was originally in the form of a female body, suddenly curled up into a ball, and finally turned into a blue gem with the word "water" engraved in regular script in the dark shadow.

"Huh? What's going on?"

Lin Shangren took the bead into his palm and removed the shadow that enveloped it. Looking at the bead, Lin Shangren recalled the plot of "Legend of the Sword Hero".

"Could this thing be the Water God Pearl?" Lin Shangren thought.

In "Legend of Sword Hero", there are a total of nine powerful orbs with reversible power: Water God Orb, Fire Orb, Golden Raccoon Orb, Big Buddha Orb, Frost Orb, Dark Orb, Prize Orb, Dragon God Orb, and Tiancheng Orb.

Among them, the Water God Pearl, Fire God Pearl and Frost God Pearl have the ability to control the corresponding water, fire and ice elements; the Golden Beaver Pearl can allow people to change their appearance freely, but it is only tangible; the Big Buddha Pearl can make objects bigger; the Dark Pearl can absorb people's positive emotions; the Prize Pearl has self-awareness and was transformed from the ancient Japanese Sea God Clam, and can reveal information about the Dragon God Pearl.

Combining the seven orbs creates the Dragon God Orb, which combines the power of the seven orbs and allows flight. Combined with the Thunder God Sword, it transforms into the terrifying Dragon God Sword.

As for the Celestial Pearl, it appears in the hilt of the Overlord Sword only after the Wind God Sword and the Thunder God Sword are combined into one. Within the Celestial Pearl lies a vast, luxurious, and bizarre alternate world called the "Spiritual Sky Realm." In the original story, the spirit of Susanoo (Susanoo) also resides within the Celestial Pearl.

It is precisely because of the existence of these nine pearls in "Legend of Sword Heroes" that it was translated as "Nine Dragon Pearls" when it was released in Taiwan, China.

And the one in Lin Shangren's hand was none other than the Water God Pearl among the nine precious pearls.

"Appraisal."

[Name: Water God Pearl]

[Quality: Magical creation? Master craftsmanship? Perfect quality]

[Status: Magical, partially conceptual, soul fragments attached]

[Note 1: The orb created after the Dragon God Orb decomposes has the magical power to control the water element. The accuracy and range of the control are affected by the user's own psychic energy and willpower.

The orb also contains a fragment of the soul of a dragon girl who held the orb, which retains some of her memories.

[Note 2: To pass down the truth about this world's history and the whereabouts of the Dragon God's treasure and Princess Kaguya's relics, the Dragon Girl, before her death, injected a portion of her soul and memories into the Water God Pearl, while the remaining portion of her soul was reincarnated normally. When the two are reunited, the Dragon Girl will be resurrected and her mission will be fulfilled.]

"The soul of the Dragon Girl? So Taira Ie is the reincarnation of another part of her soul."

Lin Shangren turned his head to look at Pingliang Ie, but saw that she was lying on the ground and was constantly fingering her buttocks.

"Hiss... Let's put some clothes on her first."

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Author's words: Tomorrow, I will definitely update tomorrow.

Chapter 397 Spider Sacrifice

"It's a little troublesome."

Lin Shangren stared at the Water God Pearl in his hand and Pingliang Ie floating beside him and sighed.

He attempted to inject spiritual energy into the Water God Pearl, and while it did allow Lin Shangren to control the surrounding water elements, even extracting water from the human body, he could not control the three phases of water. More importantly, Lin Shangren was unable to communicate with the fragment of the Dragon Girl's soul within the Water God Pearl, despite all attempts. This meant that Lin Shangren was unable to obtain information about the other orbs or the history of this world from it.

As for Taira Ie, although her body can still react instinctively to real-life stimuli, her consciousness is still in a coma - her current state is somewhat similar to that of Sleeping Beauty Bai Ye, both of them are immersed in their own dreams and refuse to wake up.

Lin Shangren can use his mind shadow to forcibly invade her conscious world, but just like the situation of Sleeping Beauty Bai Ye, Lin Shangren cannot wake up a person who is "pretending to be asleep". Unless Taira Ie herself is willing to face the reality and stop escaping, it will be of no use to her even if Lin Shangren wakes her up forcibly.

However, Lin Shangren doesn't need her for the time being, at least for the time being.

"Ie Taira's experiences over the past two days are easy to deduce. She was simply bewitched by that person and transported here to attend Tokita Wakaba's pre-wedding dinner. While she was at the dinner, Odagiri Susumu and Tokita Wakaba, in the underground secret room, accidentally unsealed the Water God Pearl. The Water God Pearl and the Dragon Girl's soul within it merged with her.

The question is why is the Water God Pearl sealed here? Where did Tokita Wakaba and Odagiri Susumu go?

Thinking, Lin Shangren placed Taira Ie's body within the shadows. He then once again activated the power of Laplace's demon and retraced history.

As for the murder case in the church in Liujiao Village, Lin Shangren had no intention or need to care about it for the time being. He already knew the truth. The murderer was Liuxing Longyi.

The history of this world is different from the original "The Case Files of Young Kindaichi". Since the Bannya family replaced the Rokuhoshi family in Rokkaku Village, "Odagiri Susumu" and "Rokuhoshi Ryuichi" became two people. The former became Odagiri Toshiya's cousin, and the latter was no longer the son of Kazamasa Jun'ya and Rokuhoshi Shiori, but became the family of the victims of the Setagaya serial murder case.

To avenge his family, Rokuho Ryuichi came to Rokkaku Village with Kindaichi and his crew. His killing methods changed from the dismemberment and reassembly of corpses, as imitated by the old thief Tianshu in "Astrology Murder Magic," to the purest form of homomorphic revenge: killing people and then chopping off their limbs, just as they had done when they committed the serial murders in Setagaya to summon the evil spirit.

Two days ago, when Lin Shangren came to Rokkaku Village to deal with Tokida Misaki late at night, he stopped by Kitayami Town to check on Kindaichi and the others. After learning about the identity of Six-Star Ryuichi in this world, Lin Shangren was ready to help him.

According to Hayashi Naoto's original plan, Rokuho Ryuichi was supposed to be freed from his crime, Odagiri Susumu and Tokita Wakaba would finally marry, the drug den in Rokkaku Village would be busted by the sisters Nogami Saeko and Nogami Reika, along with the elite members of the First Investigation Division, and Kindaichi would encounter his first perfect crime, leading to a deeper relationship with Miyuki amidst his depression. As for Hayashi Naoto, he could have come here with Hehuan to observe the unfolding events, enjoying Hachinohe's natural beauty as a long-awaited vacation for the two of them.

However, things gradually got out of control, far from Lin Shangren's original plan.

Fortunately, Lin Shangren’s goals are now relatively clear, and he can make a list of things according to their importance.

"The events related to Sword Hero Legend are clearly the most dangerous. The disappearance of the Hannya family and the so-called Wind God, the whereabouts of several orbs and Kaguya's treasures, and the potential hidden threats of Kaguya, the underground people, and the Yamata no Orochi.

The Prajna family and the Wind God will probably continue to show up. They attacked the Nogami sisters this morning to lure me here, and then discovered the Water God Pearl and these scattered pieces of information. I don't know if there will be anything else next... We can take it one step at a time.

Taira Ie's memories reveal that the whereabouts of the pearls and treasures were recorded on the golden folding screen she and her friends stole. I believe that screen is on a small island in Okinawa. So, it seems we'll have to go to Okinawa... Hmm, let's plan our two-person getaway to the Okinawa coast.

Lin Shangren thought about it.

"Then there's a certain witch lady. Koizumi Hongzi, this little witch probably knows a lot. I've already figured out how to open the witch space. I need to pay her a visit this afternoon.

Then there's the winery, the zoo, and Kuroya Naori. That guy brought Kuroya Naori into this world, indirectly leading to the birth of the three sisters, including Sister Lei, as well as the birth of the winery and all subsequent events, but the relationship between Kuroya Naori and the winery is still unclear.

Kuroya… Karasuma… Haha, it can't be that simple, right? Kuroya Naori took my severed hand and some of the Monument Guardians' treasure, returned from Europe to this world's Japan, and then established a distillery under the pseudonym Karasuma Renya? The timing doesn't match.

The more likely possibility is that Karasuma Renya, who longed for immortality, learned of the existence of Kuroya Naori and his magical arm while searching for the elixir of immortality, then killed people to steal the treasure, and used my hand to research the A-drug... Well, I'll go verify it tonight."